Record number of awards for Post journalists

The Sunday Business Post won three major awards at the 2016 NewsBrands Ireland Journalism Awards, and made a clean sweep of the business categories.

Described by the judges as “the Indiana Jones of the economic archaeologists”, deputy editor Tom Lyons was named Business Journalist of the Year for his work, which included an exclusive interview with former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm from his jail cell in Boston.

Oil storage in the self-styled ‘Pipeline Crossroads of the World’ is full to the brim, but the black stuff keeps on coming. With much of the world’s economy in a Covid-19 slowdown, at one point last week, benchmark US crude oil was priced at minus $37.63 a barrel